The battle for the No. 1 seed in the Eastern Conference is shaping up to be a three-team race. The Philadelphia 76ers, Brooklyn Nets and Milwaukee Bucks are separated by just 1.5 games. The rest of the conference, however, is in a logjam. Right now — with the No. 4 through No. 11 seeds separated by 6.5 games in the […]

The Milwaukee Bucks point guard Jrue Holiday agreed to a four-year maximum contract extension worth up to $160m on Sunday. The team confirmed the extension in a press release. Holiday, 30, is averaging 17.0 points, 5.4 assists, 4.6 rebounds and a league-leading 1.8 steals in 38 games (35 starts) in his first season with the Bucks. “Jrue is one of […]

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In a vacuum, Aaron Gordon looked like the steal of the trade deadline. An undervalued, underappreciated wing whose time in Orlando had clearly run its course, the Gordon trade offered an immediate infusion to the Nuggets’ starting five. By himself, he was a consequential addition to a team with designs on running it back deep into the playoffs. But within […]

USA Basketball have confirmed that Grant Hill will be the replacement for Jerry Colangelo as its men’s national team managing director following the Tokyo Olympics. Hill won an Olympic gold medal with the US at the 1996 Atlanta Games and was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2018 after an NBA career that spanned 19 seasons and saw […]

Phil Taylor is set to make a shock darts comeback in 2022, four years after supposedly bowing out from the sport. Taylor, 60, called time on his legendary darts career back in January 2018 following a comprehensive defeat against Rob Cross in the World Darts Championship final. The Power claimed to have officially retired after being thrashed 7-2 by Cross […]

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Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM Dallas Mavericks coach Rick Carlisle tested positive for COVID-19, preventing him from coaching Friday night against the New York Knicks in Madison Square Garden. Carlisle, 61, called the test result “unexpected,” saying that he had been fully vaccinated since January. “There’s […]

The NBA fined Brooklyn Nets star Kevin Durant $50,000 for “using offensive and derogatory language on social media,” the league announced in a news release on Friday. The league noted Durant “acknowledged that his actions were inappropriate.” Earlier this week, comedian Michael Rapaport posted a private social media exchange between him and Durant that revealed Durant’s use of personal insults, […]

Joined ESPNDallas.com in September 2009 Covers the Dallas Cowboys and Dallas Mavericks Appears regularly on ESPN Dallas 103.3 FM All-Star shooting guard Donovan Mitchell said his fear of flying would not prevent him from joining the Utah Jazz on future road trips after he opted not to travel to Memphis earlier this week in the wake of the team’s flight […]